Industry News

August 14th, 2018 - The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) announced that on August 10th, Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, and officials at Health Canada issued a decision to allow industrial hemp farmers to undertake whole plant harvest...

June 27, 2018 - In a move that will have implications for Canada’s nascent cannabis industry, this week the federal government is expected to announce new regulations for the cultivation of legal cannabis which will allow companies to grow their crops...

May 14th, 2018 - Consolidation in Canada’s nascent marijuana industry is heating up, with two of the largest players agreeing to the biggest merger seen so far in the sector.
Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to buy rival MedReleaf Corp. for about C$2.9...

April 19th, 2018 - A British pharmaceutical company is closer to getting its CBD medicine to the U.S. market with the government’s blessing, a first for the cannabis industry and potential game-changer for all marijuana and cannabidiol producers.
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March 1st, 2018 -- For those in the cannabis industry interested in the very latest scientific developments they will want to consider attending the upcoming Medicinal Cannabis Conference being held in Toronto, March 23 - 24, 2018, hosted by the International...

February 15th, 2018 - The Hemp Industries Association is taking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to court in a high-stakes case that will decide the future of CBD sales in the U.S. The suit is in response to the DEA's position that CBD is a marijuana...

February 8th, 2018 - Tobacco company Alliance One International Inc. (NYSE:AOI), announced on Thursday news of their 75 percent equity position in Canadian-licensed producer Island Garden Inc. and their 80 percent stake in LP Goldleaf Pharm Inc. With...

January 30th, 2018 - Cannabis Wheaton, a Canadian cannabis streaming company, announced that it had acquired 80% of Uruguay cannabis company Inverell. The Montevideo-based business has a federal license to produce high-CBD, low-THC cannabis strains.Inverell...

January 4th, 2018 - Phivida Holdings Inc. ("Phivida" or the "Company" traded as ("VIDA:CNX") or ("PHVAF") announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Green Reef Distributing Inc. to distribute its products across the State...

Decenber 10th, 2017 - A CBD manufacturer with offices in Canada and California is moving further into the Canadian cannabis market, acquiring a 25% stake in a company in the final stages of licensing to make hemp and marijuana pharmaceutical products.
Isodiol...